The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-01-06
CONGRESSIONAL.
WEDNESDAYS PROCEEDINGS.

HOUSE, Davidson, of Florida, for
committee, called bp the bill for the
permanent improvement Of the Il ie
and Oswcgo canals. to secure 50 me to
the use OF United States commerce.
House went into committee of the
whole, Crisp, of Georgia, in the chair
The bill appropriatcs $jO0O,000 of
p per cent bonds from the national
treasury upon thcicompletion Of spe-
ciiic improvements. and after the
State shall have pledged itself that
the canals shall be free to the COM
merce of the United States
The committee rose without action.
after remarks by Weber, of New
York, and an elaborate report of the
committee on railways and canals.
Dingev, of Maine, presented II re
monstrance of the Philadelphia Board
Of Trade against the Dunn free ship
bill. Referred
The house then went into committee
Of the whole on the Indian appropr a.
ton bill, Mcmillan of Tennessee, in
the chair. The bill was read by par
agraphs and passed without opposi-
ton. 1t appropriates S5,155,000.
The Military Academy appropria-
ton bill was then taken up and passed
in an hour.
The speaker laid before the house
the resignation Of James W. Red as
representative in the torty-ninth con-
grcss from the fifth district Of North
Carolina, to take effect at ontc.
House then on motion Of Herbert,
of Alabama, went into committee OF
the whole, with Springer, of Illinois
in the chair, in the bill for considcra-
ton of certain bureaus of the navy
department.
The majority and minority reports
were read at length, and at the conclu-
sion tn reof the house, without mo-
ton, at 400 p. III. adjourned.
SENATE--Various reports from the
secretary of war were submitted, after
which Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, re-
ported bill granting pension of 81
600 a year to Mrs. Logan, and asked
that il be considered immcdial ely.
On the tender of objections by Coke,
of Texas, the bill! went over until to-
morrow.
Frye introduced n bill to extend
time of filing claims under Alabama
award. Referred.
A resolution was adopted asking
the secretary of the interior for in
formation concerning the school lands
confirmed to the state of Nebraska.
Mcpherson offered n resolution call
ing upon the secretary of the treasury
for the amount of indebtedness of the
Pacific railroads TO the government on
Jan. !, 1887
At2p. M. the conference report on
the interstate commerce bill was called
up.
Senator Platt said with one excep-
ton he favored the report. The ques-
ton of regulating interstate commerce
was q vast and complicated one. In
1885 l37,000,000 tons of freight had
been moved by the railroads in the
United States, half of which came
under the interstate commerce diiini-
ton, and that S519000,000 in receipts
came from Transporting this bulk.
The discussion of the report was mar
rowcd to two points: First, whei her
the senate would adopt the long aud
short haul clause; aud, second, whether
il would prohibit "pooling.' Senator
Platt did not consider the first clause
wise. As an original proposition he
did not consider il IN improvement
on the bill as it left the senate. That
the senate recognized the principle
that was sound and that principle was
that the question of what a reasona lie
charge on freight, to or from station,
was not TO be determined by the qucs-
ton of what was charged for freight
10 or fiom another station. lie
thought that the conference report
clau,r las 10 the shorter distance being
included within the longer distancel
was uncertain and ambiguous. As 10
the pool" clause in the conference
bill. he believed, in his inmost mind
that il was impolitic and unjust lie
quoted fir IN the reports of the bureau
Of statistics for 1879 to show that pool
ing was merely an apportionment OF
the traffic between roads engaged in
competitive traffic. lie challenged
anybody to show that the object OF
the faithful observance of pool traffic
was anything else than maintenance
of a stable rate.
At A O'Clock Senator Platt had no
vet concluded his speech, and the sen
ate. on motion of Senator Harris, pro
ceeded i'm secret session to the consid
aration of executiye business, and fif